North Shields, Spanish Battery, Yarm

HER Number:
14362

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
North Shields, Spanish Battery, Yarm

Place:
North Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Sloop

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1828 wreck of English sloop which stranded near the Spanish Battery during a gale, while entering North Shields. On her passage from Whitby in ballast, she was a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
37

Northing:
69

Grid Reference:
NZ3769

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1357757); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 11-NOV-1828, No.6376; Newcastle Courant 15-NOV-1828, No.8026 Page(s)4; Durham County Advertiser 15-NOV-1828, No.741 Page(s)3